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Sunflower Seed Soup
By Cricket Azima, Kiwi
Sunflower seed soup? Yes! Variations of peanut soup are common throughout Africa, but this bright and savory sunflower butter soup puts a fun spin on the genre–and adds a little extra nutritional punch as well. Sunflower seed butter has a distinct nutritional edge in that it is high in alpha-linoleic acid, loaded with antioxidants, vitamin E, and selenium, and has cholesterol-lowering phytosterols.
2 tbsp vegetable oil
1 small white onion
1 clove garlic
1 tbsp ginger
1 large carrot
1 large sweet potato
1 11-ounce can crushed tomatoes
1 cup sunflower butter
4 to 6 cups vegetable broth (depending on desired consistency)
Salt and pepper, to taste
½ cup roasted sunflower seeds
½ bunch scallions, chopped
1 cup cilantro leaves
3 limes, cut into wedges
1. In a large stockpot, warm oil over medium heat.
2. Dice onion and mince garlic and ginger. Add to warm oil and cook for 5 minutes, or until onion is translucent.
3. Peel the carrot and sweet potato and cut both into fine dice.
4. Add carrot and sweet potato to pot.
5. Add the crushed tomatoes and sunflower butter; mix to combine.
6. Add broth and raise heat to high temperature. Bring to boil, and then reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
7. Add salt and pepper, to taste.
8. Ladle soup into bowls; serve with a sprinkle of sunflower seeds, scallions, cilantro leaves and a wedge of lime (to be juiced into bowl prior to eating).
Serves 6 to 8
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add your comment »Ah, another way of eating sunflower seeds.
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What chicken? I don't see the reference to it.
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So, how much chicken do you use?
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you may want to first roast the carrot and parsnip (to substitute for the winter squash) to enhance flavors. And while you're roasting why not roast unsalted hulled sunflower seeds and grind them (in a coffee grinder)to make your own butter. Buying the seed in bulk would help make this recipe a little more economical. If you're using the elusive chicken, you could make your own chicken stock instead of using vegetable stock.
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Perhaps if you cannot find sweet potatoes or pumpkin, you can find acorn squash or butternut squash? On another note, if you are a vegetarian, you could add marinated extra firm cubed tofu or some tofrueky that is available? Hope either of these help. yes, it seems they did leave the chicken out of the list of ingredients but it is just as well. this can easily be vegetarian.
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as a vegetarian, I'm hoping you can just leave out the chicken. yes?
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Hope to try you recipe, as it sounds great!
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The ingredients don't list chicken, but the instructions call for it. Maybe something is missing? Sounds like a great recipe and I hope to try it!
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I think zucchini (courgettes) would be a suitable substitute! x
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I wouldn't know what a substitute would be... strange that you can't buy sweet potatoe or pumpkin in Denmark. I live in the Netherlands, and we still have them in the supermarkets. Of course I live in a "big city". Perhaps in a smaller place one would not be able to buy these things.
I hope someone will reply, as I have no idea and I am curious as well...
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